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Mark W. Isken – INFORMS Transactions on Education, 2025
A staple of many spreadsheet-based management science courses is the use of Excel for activities such as model building, sensitivity analysis, goal seeking, and Monte-Carlo simulation. What might those things look like if carried out using Python? We describe a teaching module in which Python is used to do typical Excel-based modeling and…
Descriptors: Spreadsheets, Models, Programming Languages, Monte Carlo Methods
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Holman, Justin O.; Hacherl, Allie – Journal of Statistics and Data Science Education, 2023
It has become increasingly important for future business professionals to understand statistical computing methods as data science has gained widespread use in contemporary organizational decision processes in recent years. Used by scores of academics and practitioners in a variety of fields, Monte Carlo simulation is one of the most broadly…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Monte Carlo Methods, Programming Languages, Statistics Education
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Glaser-Opitz, Henrich; Budajová, Kristina – Acta Didactica Napocensia, 2016
The article introduces a software application (MATH) supporting an education of Applied Mathematics, with focus on Numerical Mathematics. The MATH is an easy to use tool supporting various numerical methods calculations with graphical user interface and integrated plotting tool for graphical representation written in Qt with extensive use of Qwt…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Computer Software, Computer Assisted Instruction, College Mathematics